Sentences with phrase «of things literary»

Sad news today: Nashville's own John Egerton, one of the region's strongest supporters of all things literary, has died at the age of 78.

Not exact matches

Inside was the first edition of Woolly — the mattress company's new 96 - page branded print magazine / literary journal / coloring book thing.

Stephenson tries not to let his literary access to the corridors of power go to his head: «I go to elaborate lengths to try to shut out all awareness of such things, because it would make it very hard to write,» he says.

For one thing, it means one isn't Jean - Paul Sartre, the «archetypal example» of anti-political, «literary politics,» a manner of «engaging with political life that deliberately... ignored reality and that preferred to remain on the level of an abstract theory or a kind of pure, contentless moralizing.»

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The Bible covers so many different literary genres though and is written for and by so many different people at different times, that it simply doesn't make sense to talk of the whole thing as an «instruction manual».

Talon, I applaude you for your literary talents but instead of wasting them on foolishness, try spending that time studying the bible and you'll find out some things you may not be aware of about the God you so quickly slander.

It would also seem that he kind of went with the lowest bidder on the editing of his literary masterpiece... the whole thing just doesn't work.

The great literary critic Frank Kermode wrote of «The Figure in the Carpet» that «Vereker's secret — «the thing for the critic to find» — is not, we infer, the sort of thing the celibate and impotent may look for when they speculate about sex.

Brad Miner, former literary editor of National Review, is a senior fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute and senior editor of the website the Catholic Thing.

Things are easier for them: The refusal and the narration are easy gestures, and it takes only a modicum of literary flair and historical confidence to peg the acolyte of truth and demonstrative argument as a creature from another age.

St. Laurence Church is far from the only one talking about the King James Bible this year - the Globe Theatre in London is planning a reading of the whole thing in the days before Easter, and a literary festival has already done one.

He seemed to be unaware of this actual process, even though some of the centers of biblical form and literary criticism, (especially in Austria - Germany (ie Tubingen University)-RRB- HAD begun to be aware of the historical, (archeologically validated) processes, (and eventually at Harvard and Yale and Princeton, and I'm sure other places I don't know about), by the time Smith was doing his thing.

Matthew Schmitz is literary editor of First Things.

The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging by gilbert meilaender eerdmans, 135 pages, $ 18 An esteemed Protestant ethicist (and First Things advisor and contributor) has here an extended essay that is at turns philosophical, literary, and biblical, and is throughout humane.

It quivers on the boundary of these things, sometimes leaning one way, sometimes the other, to suit the literary rather than the philosophic need.

Although a literary artist, Tolstoy was one of those primitive oaks of men to whom the superfluities and insincerities, the cupidities, complications, and cruelties of our polite civilization are profoundly unsatisfying, and for whom the eternal veracities lie with more natural and animal things.

Owen Barfield is a British literary theorist and philologist who has extrapolated from Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Max Muller in order to argue that language is basically and naturally metaphorical.8 Reasoning from this thesis, Barfield has also had some provocative things to say about the evolution of consciousness.9

The word «allegory» here has only a literary resemblance to the allegory of the grammarians, which, Cicero tells us, «consists in saying one thing to make something else understood.»

It is as readily found in the editorials of the Nation (which have routinely claimed that the war on drugs is a war on black America), as in the public utterances of literary icons like Toni Morrison, who told Time magazine that the only thing binding America together as a nation is its racism toward American blacks.

Gioia's latest essay, «The Catholic Writer Today,» published in the December 2013 issue of First Things, bears a striking resemblance to his Atlantic essay on poetry: Like its predecessor, it takes in a wide sweep of literary history, pointedly details a deplorable situation — «Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts» — and seeks to rally those who care to action.

And this is what I have found myself doing, at first almost by accident and now more self - consciously, both because I think that literary criticism can do some things that historical criticism can not do and because I find it to be of compelling interest.

In this installment of the First Things Podcast, join associate editor Julia Yost, literary editor Matthew Schmitz, and senior fellow Francesca Aran Murphy.

And thinking about all of these things reminded me of a conversation I had, not long ago, with my friend the inimitable Ambrose d'Arcangeli (what a marvelous name that man has) about literary depictions of Satan, and how attractive, witty, glamorous, or appealing they often make the devil seem.

As some of you know, Susan Pease Gadoua and I are co-writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (and just snagged a literary agent, so things are really looking promising!)

Filled with activities, printables, project, s and plenty of inspiration, Alphabet Glue was created in hopes of helping more families to incorporate creativity, imagination and all things literary into their everyday routines.

World book day outfits have happily been a thing of the past for a few years now, but suddenly out of the blue, an email from the school about dressing up as a literary character this week.

Filled with activities, printables, projects and plenty of inspiration, Alphabet Glue was created in hopes of helping more families incorporate creativity, imagination, and all things literary into their everyday routines.

BY ELIZABETH BERGER DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE A bouquet of flowers, a quick bite, a literary journal: These are the kinds of little things that make so much of a difference in today's fast - paced world.

And most appropriately, in his inaugural column, in the Origins special issue, he is looking at C. P. Snow, the discusser of the unfortunate «Two Cultures,» on the one hand the very literary people, on the other hand the science - educated people, and we are still 50 years later after C. P. Snow's column trying to figure out a bridge between the two, and Dr. Krauss has some interesting things to say about that in this issue.

San Francisco About Blog This blog is my personal catalog of outfits, people / places / things that inspire me, certain book or literary things.

For one thing, they've already been there; the movie can not be more than a zealous approximation of Rowling's achievement, a fair copy of a rapturous literary experience.

The Shrek franchise is built on a one - joke premise of sending up the literary history of fairytale literature, and though several recent productions have badly tried to do the same thing, this is the first and (by default) the best of the animated features to do so.

And there's actually a bit of a gap this year for this sort of thing: none of the pre-anointed contenders are literary - derived war weepies, a genre that traditionally does well with the Academy.

She develops feelings for the married Rev. Charles Wadsworth (Eric Loren), who praises and encourages her literary gifts, though his abrupt departure for a parish in San Francisco contributes to a particularly intense, anguished outburst of creativity: «We outgrow love like other things / And put it in the drawer, / Till it an antique fashion shows / Like costumes grandsires wore.»

Finding a cinematic equivalent for a literary vision is one thing; equaling its power in the context of another medium is something else entirely.

Of course, I'm stating the obvious when I point out that turning a well - known literary work into a film can be a tricky thing.

Lesson 3: Children should learn there are different ways of seeing things and about the importance of literary genres in asking whether something is true.

It's the sort of thing that keeps literary critics in business: What does a book really mean to say and why does it say it the way it does?

«One of the first things I seek to do...» «There can sometimes be this tacit, even unconscious presumption that spoken word is lower on the literary hierarchy than that of other more «traditional» poetry.

None of these things would be possible without a full - time, certified Media Specialist leading the Media Center's many programs, utilizing specialized training and background knowledge to meet students» information and literary needs, and advocating for expanded services and improved resources on a regular basis.

This is a pitfall our literary agency has avoided in most instances by having things such as the mandate to publish within a certain timeframe, along with the format of the book written into the agreement with publishers.

Hey, all of these things have happened to authors represented by new literary agents and they got «orphaned» as a result.

A good cinematic book trailer is the type of thing that potential readers will want to share with their friends, literary websites will want to write articles on, and brands the author as a professional with a multimedia digital marketing campaign, a force to be reckoned with.

There are 125 different things you can say (or, in some cases, not say) when writing a query letter that will get literary agents to trust you — most authors are only aware of a few.

«There's this thing called literary citizenship, which is very popular to talk about in the more literary MFA community, which is kind of their palatable way of thinking about marketing and promotion.

Weiner has a few things straight: she's a commercial rather than a «literary» writer, and female writers of commercial fiction for women are perhaps the least - respected writers in America.

Literary Agent First Five Pages — One of the things that frustrates authors most, is literary agents who only let writers submit a few pages of a manuscript, and then reject it.

Established and emerging authors lead 130 + interactive sessions on the craft of writing — the «muse» side of things — while editors, literary agents and other industry professionals tackle the business side — the «marketplace.»

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